The algo flow line calculates the strength of options flow for a ticker for every minute of the day. A cumulative score is shown on the chart.
Values above 0 are considered bullish and below 0 are bearish. There are only 4 possibilities.
Cont.
1. When both price and algo flow is going in the same direction. Let us assume they are both bullish.
When that's the case, it means the strength in both price and options flow is very strong. This usually results in continuation of the move.
$SPY example.
2. When price is going down as well as algo flow line is going down. Similar to a bullish move, this means that both price and algo flow are bearish and are supporting each other.
This is again an instance where we expect continuation.
$PDD
3. The third and fourth examples are about divergences i.e when algo flow and price does not go in the same direction.
When that happens, the price is expected to move in the algo flow direction thus converging and removing that divergence.
Bullish divergence with $BABA.
4. Finally, similar to a bullish divergence where algo flow goes up while price goes down, we can also have a bearish divergence where price goes up but algo flow goes down.
As always, this is just a tool to help you find good trade ideas. I usually try to trade divergences since I think they are pretty cool. But it's up to you to build your own strategy.
And please always do your own DD before following anything.
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Alright, lesson time. There's such a beautiful thing to see in the markets today especially for newcomers.
Support and resistance levels are your friend - they are the easiest and most reliable way of doing technical analysis (just my opinion)
$PLTR $NIO $RVLV $MU
Let's look at $NIO. We broke a support level yesterday, when we break a support level, it becomes a resistance.
Look at today's rally. Where did it stop? Right at the newly formed resistance level. That's where I bought a put. I'll explain why this happens in some other thread
Before moving forward, this is just one man's opinion and I'm not perfect by any means. These are just some observations that I've had trading in the last one and a half year. You are allowed to disagree. I'm also not perfect and I make plenty of mistakes while trading.
I always start with our options market dashboard to look at the statistics table. I sort it by delta premiums which gives me the most bullish and bearish flow for the day. This is my set!
$SNAP $CVS $AAPL $VIAC $NIO
I pick the top 10 most bullish and bearish stocks in the list and search them on Scany.
For the purpose of this thread, let's just pick $AMAT and $CVS since I just went over them.
Searching them on Scany gives us some more important information about the stocks.
Looking at $CVS, I can see we had a daily breakout here. Looking at the chart, the breakout was there but it failed by the day end. However, it's easy to see that the price is at an all time high and has been trying to break the resistance level. That is good.
I promised some charts today so here we go. All charts are found using our Scany tool and many of these tickers might not have a lot of hype but the price action is good and that's what you need these days.
$EOG broke long term downtrend on weekly chart. Noted added.
$IQ just broke out from a long term resistance here. We had an engulfing candle today (that's the scanner I used here) with increasing volume. All of these signs are very good. Might start a position here.
$BOX we had a beautiful breakout on weekly chart here and there was plenty of strength today as the price did not move down much. Good one.
Important thread on what I'm trying to do these days to reduce my risk.
FYI, Although down the last 2 weeks, I'm fortunately still up about 25% in my overall portfolio so if that helps take some of this advice seriously. Finally, it's just one man's opinion, I could be wrong.
1. Stop buying naked calls or puts. With how the market is hurting people, it's hard to time everything and buying naked calls and puts will incur you a lot more losses than doing something more risk-averse strategies.
2. I sold all my naked calls today for about 20-30% losses on every one of them. I'm putting all that money into cash secured puts for my favorite stocks. Right now, I've two for $SOS and $MARA. Why do I do that?
How to find potential plays using our Options Market Dashboard. A small & important thread.
1. First, take a look at the most bullish and bearish net premiums and find the top 3-5 candidates. $SQ $RKT $TSLA $AAPL are a few here. Keep an eye on those and look at live options flow
2. Next, go down and take a look at the cheaplies and leaps widgets. These are some of the most useful widgets you'll find on any website, period. $GM is doing well today, see if you can find it here.
Others are $RIO $NLS $XOM.
3. Next, go to the Most OTM widget - these are slightly risky candidates but their reward is also extremely high since these are far out of the money contracts with high volume. High volume is there to see if there's interest in it. Another extremely useful widget.
I've always wanted to build Tradytics into something that people can just use themselves and be profitable. I personally do not like explicit alerts but many new traders want them so we built tools.
However, I wish everyone starts learning to analyze options flow. 🙏
2/n Eventually, every trader realizes that they need to build their own strategy. They cannot just rely on alerts from others because even if those alerts are good, traders mostly suffer losses just because it's not their own thing.
3/n Services should always be used to couple your trading strategy. You can find "potential" plays by looking at other services but following them blindly doesn't lead to anything in my opinion.